# TO V. A. AVANESOV, D. I. KURSKY,

Source: PSS vol. 54

A. D. TSYURUPA

Urgent.

To Avanesov, Kursky, Tsyurupa

I suspect a petty military maneuver on the part of Osinsky and Bogdanov, who are introducing today, in my absence, a question concerning the repeal of the resolution of the Council of Labor and Defense regarding holding accountable persons guilty of procrastination in the manufacture of Fowler plows.129 I request that attention be paid to this matter and that influence be exerted against the repeal of the resolution of the Council of Labor and Defense. There is no doubt that those guilty of procrastination are here in evidence, and from the standpoint of principle it is necessary not to leave such matters within the bounds of bureaucratic institutions, but to bring them before a public court, not so much for the sake of strict punishment (perhaps a reprimand will suffice), but for the sake of public disclosure and the destruction of the universal conviction in the impunity of the guilty*.

13/XII-21

Lenin

Dictated by telephone

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* See the present volume, document 155. Ed.

First published in 1928

in Lenin Sbornik VIII

Printed from the typescript